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No. 468,968. Patented Feb. 16, 1892.

Wneisess UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES XV. CAMPBELL, OF GERMANTOWN, ASSIGNOR TO FERGUSON BROTHERS, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

JOINT FOR FURNITURE, 84.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,963, dated February16, 1892.

' Application filed April 10, 1891. Serial No. 388,350.- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES W. CAMPBELL, of Germantown, in the county ofColumbia and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Joints for Furniture and other Vooden Structures, ofwhich the following is a specification.

' The object of this invention is to provide in a simple, effective, andorflamental manner for the making of angular joints between the posts,pillars, columns, or stiles and rails or cross-bars of light'articles'of furniture, such as easels, screens, clothes-racks,towelracks, &c.

I will proceed to describe my invention with reference to theaccompanying drawings and afterward point out its novelty in a claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side view of two pillars or stilesand a rail or crossbar joined thereto and illustrating my invention.Fig. 2 represents a horizontal section of one of the pillars and stilesand of a portion of the rail or crossbar shown in Fig. 1. Fig-s'-is aface view of the combined socket and saddle which constitutes myinvention. Fig. at is a central section of the same, corresponding withFig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a .blank of sheet metal from which my combinedsocket and saddle is formed.

My combined socket and saddle consists of a double-sided wrought-metalcup or socket a a for the reception of the end of one of two pieces, asthe rail or cross-bar A, of wood or other material, and a concave saddle5 b formed by the extension of the exterior portions 1) of the doublesides or walls of said cup or socket in such form that their edges 1)conform to the sides of another piece, as one of the pillars or stilesB. This combined socket and saddle is made from a blank of brass orother sheet metal of an approximately elliptical form, substantiallylike that shown in Fig. 5, by cupping the central portion, (indicated bya dotted circle in Fig. 5,)

in the manner shown in Fig. 4, to form the inner wall a and bottom ofthe socket and afterward turning back the marginal portions to form theouter wall I) of the cup or socket and at the same time form thesaddle 1) b the edges of which conform toand fit against the pillar orstile B. The bottom or base of the cup or socket has a central hole 0for the reception of a screw.

The end of the cross bar or railA does not require to be cut to fit theupright or stile B, but is merely sawed off straight and inserted intothe socket a a, the fiat hollow or base a of which constitutes anabutmentfor the said end, while the edges b of the saddle come againstthe upright or stile'B, A screw 61,.

screwed through the upright B, through the hole c'of the socket, bringsthe rail or crossbar tight to the abutment a and the saddle tight to theupright or stile.

It is obvious that in any part of a structure in which a horizontalportion projects in both directions from an upright portion the socketwill receive the upright portion and the saddle will lit the horizontalportion.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combined socket and saddle herein described, constituting ajoint-piece for furniture and other articles, comprising a socket forthe reception of a bar and a concave saddle for the reception of a barextending at right angles to the bar to be received in the socket, thesaid joint-piece consisting of wrought metal doubled upon itself to formthe wall of the socket, perforated, as at c, and having the outerportion of the doubled wall extended to form the wall of the concavesaddle, substantially as set forth.

JAMES W.,OAMPBELL.

